New York City-based NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center has appointed two leaders for its newly established Gastrointestinal Cancer Center.
Anirban Maitra, MD, and Manuel Hidalgo, MD, will serve as co-directors of the center, according to a Sept. 5 news release from the health system.
Dr. Maitra is a gastrointestinal and pancreatic pathologist. He previously served as associate director of translational research and as the inaugural scientific director of the Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Dr. Hidalgo is a translational researcher and clinical oncologist. He has served in professorial roles at Boston-based Harvard Medical School, Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University, and New York City-based Weill Cornell Medical College. He also served as faculty and director of the ASCO/AACR Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop from 2019 to 2024.
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